2 MAY 1998, page 27

Fake Picasso

Sir: Robin Simon in his review (Arts, 18 April) repeats Picasso's supposed descrip- tion of himself as 'only a joker who had understood his epoch and has extracted all he......

Bon Mot

Sir: I don't take The Spectator regularly, but faced with a long train journey the other day I bought your edition of 18 April. Is it obligatory for your contributors to use the......

Welsh Rarebit

Sir: Sion Simon writes entertainingly about Le Monde in Cardiff (Restaurants as the- atre, 18 April) and captures, I think cor- rectly, the attractiveness of Cardiff's best......

Glass Houses

Sir: Paul Johnson was throwing stones from a very exposed glass house in so vehemently attacking 'the general depravity of Britain's awful press' (And another thing, 11 April).......